The economy sucks and the cytown development screwed stuff up. Plus easier to watch at home.
Are ISU fans at their wits end when it comes to supporting Iowa State?
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And maybe with time that will get better, but right now it’s just not exciting.
I can echo a lot of the sentiments posted here.
I don’t like large groups of people, my anxiety gets ratcheted up so high that I don’t enjoy it. I went to one ISU game since moving back and it was the Baylor game in 2018 where David Montgomery was ejected. Froze my backside off and finished the second half of the game at Welch Ave. with beer and pizza. Living in Austin made me sensitive to the cold. (Feeling much better now)
I appreciate and respect those who can afford and make it to the games. Part of me wants to go, but part of me wants to keep the rest of my Saturday free for other things.
To make up for my lack of attendance, I enjoy We Will Pizzas throughout the week and especially on game day. I support CF premium, I donate to We Will, I donate to the music program and the marching band, specifically.
I don’t want to feel guilt of my lack of attendance, I am doing what I feel is my part by supporting ISU and the athletes financially as best I can.
I don’t like large groups of people, my anxiety gets ratcheted up so high that I don’t enjoy it. I went to one ISU game since moving back and it was the Baylor game in 2018 where David Montgomery was ejected. Froze my backside off and finished the second half of the game at Welch Ave. with beer and pizza. Living in Austin made me sensitive to the cold. (Feeling much better now)
I appreciate and respect those who can afford and make it to the games. Part of me wants to go, but part of me wants to keep the rest of my Saturday free for other things.
To make up for my lack of attendance, I enjoy We Will Pizzas throughout the week and especially on game day. I support CF premium, I donate to We Will, I donate to the music program and the marching band, specifically.
I don’t want to feel guilt of my lack of attendance, I am doing what I feel is my part by supporting ISU and the athletes financially as best I can.
Will take a generation. For my generation Cincinnati only plays basketball and UCF is a team that we might play in basketball on November 11th and we have to pay them to show up.
Pete Rose? Is that you? Oh, wait. I guess not...
Iowa, Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Kansas is better than UCF, Cincinnati, Baylor, Kansas State, Texas Tech. Probably right though, still not great. At least the Arizona schools have always been P5 and Iowa helps.
One big issue is utilizing a service like Ticketmaster to sell your tickets. Out of curiosity, I put the cheapest block of 6 tickets in my cart. When it put them in it showed a total of $384. By the time I got to checkout, my total was going to be $483.86.
I guess I don’t see the Arizona schools and BYU as exciting as others.
Is this dude for real? Depending on your age, you are probably living in the best economy you've ever seen.
I will agree with the easier to watch from home.
CycloneErik
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Me, either.
I do work during the first half of games, since our first halves don't tend to be very exciting. That's a lot easier from the couch.
ISU's growth in enrollment the last 20 years has created A LOT of fans/donors. But most of us are in our 20/30's, far from the best years to be a major donor...
Fair enough. Still isn’t great. Miss the old Big 12, or even just Big 8.
Just noticed looking ahead we don't have Iowa scheduled from 2028 on. I have to be wondering if this scheduling mess with the Big 10 and SEC will kill that game.
The nearest P4 team not in the Big 10, SEC, or Big 12 is Louisville. Not exactly what I would call local enough to draw interest.
The nearest P4 team not in the Big 10, SEC, or Big 12 is Louisville. Not exactly what I would call local enough to draw interest.
Would be so nice to be able to print them up and cut out the broker when buying and selling tickets. Of course those days are gone forever.
StubHub is just as bad. I bought a block of 4 tickets for this weekend so I could take my wife and my 2 kids that are doing the cheer camp this weekend and get to go on the field at halftime (another $75 each btw and if we didn't have the pom poms from last year was going to be another $30 for those too!) Was $78 a ticket so $312 total but then go to check out and guess what, there is another $145 of fees waiting for me so my $78 ticket is now about $115 a ticket. Luckily I had over $300 of credit from StubHub because the tickets I bought for the 1st and 2nd round in Omaha in March didn't match what my order said so using that brought it down to $35 a ticket at least. So at face value not counting my StubHub credit and without factoring in buying food and beverages for tailgate, gas, and also whatever the wife and I wind up doing tomorrow night in Ames while the kids are at the cheer clinic that's already close to $650 of expenses for a family of 4 to go to this game and sit 14 rows up in the upper deck, for the kids to do the cheer clinic and perform at halftime. People wonder why attendance is what it is some games, imagine if you want to pay for lower level seats for this one, you probably would be out over $1000 for a family of 4 after all the resale fees are tacked on if you had not already bought single game tickets at the beginning of the season.
The online fees for these transactions are getting ridiculous, Ticketmaster and other resell sites have got to be raking in some big time revenues off these. Just buying GA parking passes is an extra $5+ a game too for a $25 pass and I hate that process because you can't even buy all the games at once when they go on sale you have to buy each pass with a separate transaction.
I've missed 8 home UNI games in my entire life (parents started taking me at 3 weeks old) and have coupled that with countless games at Iowa State as well. There were years where schedules lined up right and I could hit 10 UNI/ISU home games and then would make at least one road trip.
This will be the 3rd year in a row that I don't make it to Ames and I've strongly considered not renewing at UNI the last couple of years.
It's expensive, it's uncomfortable and takes up a ton of time. The perks of having my Saturday, being way more comfortable and not having to haul my own food and beer out tailgating seem better all the time.
Basketball is non-negotiable, I'm never giving that up but football is heading into 'I don't think I'll really miss being there' territory.
This will be the 3rd year in a row that I don't make it to Ames and I've strongly considered not renewing at UNI the last couple of years.
It's expensive, it's uncomfortable and takes up a ton of time. The perks of having my Saturday, being way more comfortable and not having to haul my own food and beer out tailgating seem better all the time.
Basketball is non-negotiable, I'm never giving that up but football is heading into 'I don't think I'll really miss being there' territory.
Agree. It takes years of success to build up the fanaticism required to overcome things like cost, time, weather etc. We just got handled by Memphis and had modest hype coming into the year
Our numbers are very impressive. Imagine if we had just had several 9+ win seasons and came into the year ranked
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